This week, we discuss how LLMs are changing software development, OpenAI’s deep research, and why the Gartner Hype Cycle persists. Plus, a business plan built entirely around ice!

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 506

Runner-up Titles

• I bought the DevOps
• I’m always looking for tomatillas
• You’re making a strong case for RTO
• The CEO of ice. The VP of Ice Machines.
• What you are doing is toil
• I think about WALL-E every day
• Eliminating the first draft

Rundown

• The End of Programming as We Know It
• Apple Earnings, OpenAI Deep Research, The Unbundling of Substantiation
  
• Gartner's Grift Is About To Unravel

Relevant to your Interests

• Google goes heavy on investment but light on detail
• Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model for under $50
• Dumping open source for proprietary rarely pays off: Better to stick a fork in it
• Report: OpenAI's ex-CTO, Mira Murati, has recruited OpenAI co-founder John Schulman
• Broadcom and Nvidia are capitalizing on the return of the winner-take-all AI trade
• When will remote workers see their pay cut?
• How Microsoft Releases Changes to Azure - Safe Deployment
• Servers can last a long time
• Matt Mullenweg: WordPress Controversy, Future of Open Source AI, and Navigating Backlash
• Turn/River Agrees to Buy SolarWinds Years After Cyber-Attack
• Gartner's Grift Is About To Unravel
• Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
• You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free
• The DevTools Ceiling: great as Open Source, AND a Terrible Business
• The VGHF Library opens in early access | Video Game History Foundation
• Docker Announces Don Johnson as New CEO, Succeeding Scott Johnston
• Developers Unhappy With Tool Sprawl, Lagging Data, Long Waits
• Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
• Apple brings heart rate monitoring

Nonsense

• TabBoo

Conferences

• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
• VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
• SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10
• Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
• Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
• NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
• KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.

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This week, we discuss cloud’s never-ending “early innings,” OpenAI Canvas vs. Gemini, and Dell’s RTO reversal. Plus, is there such a thing as too much optimism?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 505

Runner-up Titles

• Fastball to the head
• Not enough AI eggs
• Toxic Positivity

Rundown

• Cote’s Early Innings Research
  • Slides and stream recording of presenting it at cfgmgmtcamp 2025
• Cloud Revenue
  • Microsoft Q2 cloud revenue falls short of expectations, sending the stock lower
  • Alphabet shares drop as much as 9% on revenue miss, soaring AI investments
  • Google parent Alphabet’s earnings disappoint Wall Street amid stiff AI competition
  • DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts
• DeepSeek Debates: Chinese Leadership On Cost, True Training Cost, Closed Model Margin Impacts
• Dell RTO Timeline
  • Aug 2020: Dell: 60% of our people won't be going back into an office regularly
  • March 2024: ****Dell says remote workers must go hybrid if they want any hope of a promotion
  • Jan 2025: Dell ends hybrid work policy despite remote work pledge
• 5 Signs Your Optimism Is Hurting Your Team

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• Jack Dorsey’s Block has an AI agent too
• Can We Build a Five Gigawatt Data Center?—Asterisk
• Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office
• 'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio
• What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison
• DOGE, Software, and Government
• DOJ sues to block HP Enterprise from buying Juniper Networks
• Mark Zuckerberg to employees in leaked all-hands meeting: ‘buckle up’
• There’s Something Very, Very Wrong With Tech Today.
• Microsoft Enforces Tougher Layoff Rules: No Severance, Immediate Termination
• Apple reportedly gives up on its AR video glasses project
• uBlock Origin is dead for Chrome, but ad blockers live on
• Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries
• Palantir soars 24% to record high as AI powers strong earnings and guidance
• 'Eternal' 5D memory crystal capable of storing 360 TB of data for billions of years now holds a full human genome
• AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications
• OpenAI's nightmare: Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi
• Why Chinese AI has stunned the world
• Why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with a 160-year-old economics paradox
• OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Ue
• Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
• Gurman: Apple is launching new iCloud service as soon as this week, codenamed "Confetti" - 9to5Mac

Nonsense

• Funny note from JP Morgan Analyst about Tesla
• Waffle House is passing along the sky-high cost of eggs to diners with a 50-cent surcharge
• Optimized Charging

Listener Feedback

• ChatGPT Explains the difference between ‘.bashrc` and .bash_profile
• Optimized Charging

Conferences

• Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
• VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
• SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10.
• Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
• Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
• NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
• KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.

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This week, we discuss the latest news about DeepSeek, how to make sense of the countless hot takes, and a review of The Nvidia Way. Plus, some thoughts on Valentine’s Day.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 504

Runner-up Titles

• The Paperclip Apocalypse
• Markets Over Management
• The Nest Egg
• This is cheaper than therapy
• Valentine’s Day
• “Turns out, guys…”
• You can burn a candle out, and when it’s out there’s no candle.
• I don’t think Jensen is struggling

Rundown

• DeepSeek
  • China's DeepSeek appears to have built AI models that rival OpenAI, while allegedly using much less money, chips, and energy.
  • DeepSeek FAQ
  • DeepSeek and the Enterprise
  • Four big reasons to worry about DeepSeek (and four reasons to calm down)
  • DeepSeek Disruption Has Its Upside
  • Dario Amodei — On DeepSeek and Export Controls
  • Bonus Clouded Judgement - Inference Time Compute
  • CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo

Relevant to your Interests

• Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in 'horribly shortsighted' decision
• Rethinking developer experience at T-Mobile: DevEx vs devprod, exec buy-in, and developer self-service
• FTC Finalizes Long-Awaited Updates to Children's Privacy Rule
• FTC Finalizes Changes to Children’s Privacy Rule Limiting Companies’ Ability to Monetize Kids’ Data
• Free OpenAI & every-LLM API Pricing Calculator
• GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
• Microsoft's LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train AI models
• We’re launching Opengrep, a fork of Semgrep CE
• Semaphore is Going Open Source in 30 days
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies
• "Digital shoplifting" is on the rise among the well-off Gen Z crowd
• Kubernetes Cloud Repatriation Saves Millions for Data Platform Provider
• Warp vs. Ghostty: Which Terminal App Meets Your Dev Needs?
• Cheriton School of Computer Science researchers’ update to Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30%
• Stargate artificial intelligence project to exclusively serve OpenAI

Nonsense

• Why Speaking Like a Wanker at Work Is Essential
• Stripe accidentally sent an image of a duck when notifying some employees they were getting laid off

Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, Ghent, Belgium, February 2-5, 2025.
• Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
• VMUG NL, March 12th, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Chicago, March 18th, 2025.
• SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10.
• Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
• Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
• NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
• KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.

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• Brandon: Paradise
• Matt: Tell me which Ardupilot/PX4 Autopilot platform I should buy?
  • Holybro X500 v2 or QAV250 dev kit?
• Coté:
  • (MLA) citations
  • “The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces,” Michael Polkinghorn, in Candlekeep Mysteries.

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This week, we explore how AI is reshaping software development, the slow adoption of Service Mesh, and the latest effort to modernize the U.S. Government. Plus, chili debates, and Wiz proves puppies make everything better.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 503

Runner-up Titles

• Just start it, I’ll catch up
• Let’s not get distracted by the corn
• AI’s never eaten a bowl of chili, Brandon.
• No beans for you
• Streetfights about chili
• Get out of my right pane
• Single Thread Pizza
• That is a response to a problem I don’t want to have.
• This is not listener feedback, this is more Matt feedback.

Rundown

• Visual Studio Code helped Microsoft win developers. New AI coding editors want to own the future
• Anysphere, a Maker of A.I. Coding Software, Raises $105 Million
• Model Distillation
• DeepSeek claims its 'reasoning' model beats OpenAI's o1 on certain benchmarks
• Istio Creators on Mistakes To Avoid for Any Project
• Trump signs order setting up DOGE with a focus on government tech
• Trump’s Treasury pick pledges to keep IRS Direct File open this tax season

Relevant to your Interests

• This Hedge Fund Created an Excel on Steroids
• The $500 Million Debacle at Sonos That Just Won’t End
• Thoma Bravo-owned SailPoint reveals narrower loss in US IPO filing
• The First Big Trump Scam Is Already Blowing Up in Everyone’s Faces
• We’re in the Netflix-opens-a-restaurant stage of the cycle.
• Google Invests Another $1 Billion in AI Developer Anthropic
• Product Name Changes
• Gartner: VMware migrations will be long, costly, and risky
• Developers and IT folks, please be careful when installing Homebrew
• Capital One gives update on deposit issues as customers demand answers
• Many remote workers say they’d be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home
• Schrödinger's Cat breakthrough could usher in the 'Holy Grail' of quantum computing, making them error-proof

Nonsense

• This Southern Grocery Store Was Just Named The Best In The Nation And We're Not Surprised
• Soup You Can Suck On: Introducing Progresso Soup Drops, the Ultimate Cold and Flu Season Comfort
• New England Patriots VP of content says NFL told team to shut down Bluesky account

Listener Feedback

• Wiz has gone to the dogs (puppies)?

Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
• Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP
• SREday London, March 27-28, Coté speaking. 10% with code LDN10.
• Monki Gras, London, March 27-28, Coté speaking.
• Cloud Foundry Day US, May 14th, Palo Alto, CA
• NDC Oslo, May 21-23, speaking.
• KubeCon EU, April 1-4, London.

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• Brandon: Silo and Severance
• Matt: Search Engine: The New Zuckerberg
• Coté:
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  • Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophic Life,

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This week, we cover the Sonos executive shake-up, AWS CEO Matt Garman's take on AI, and check in on OpenTofu’s growth. Plus, some thoughts on broken windows and Emacs no longer being preinstalled on macOS.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 502

Runner-up Titles

• Anecdote Investigations.
• The Software Defined Elves are gonna send you a RØDECaster.
• Well, maybe we should talk about emacs more!
• I still have a box of cables
• Buy One, Pay for One
• If it’s fine, it’s fine

Rundown

• Sonos’ interim CEO hits all the right notes in first letter to employees
• Breaking: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
• Sonos Chief Product Officer to Leave; Interim CEO to Take Role
• AI’s payoff will be massive, says AWS CEO Matt Garman
• OpenTofu Turns One With OpenTofu 1.9.0
• macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs

Relevant to your Interests

• The 8 worst technology failures of 2024
• 41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI | CNN Business
• How I Replaced Notion with Reminders, Numbers, and Notes
• Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours, blames WP Engine
• How Fidelity’s “chaos buffet” pushed AWS to new Lambda tools
• Zuckerberg on Rogan: Facebook's censorship was "something out of 1984"
• Meta Reorientates Itself Around ‘Masculine Energy’ – Pixel Envy
• #6907 Kong-ingress-controller 3.4 has high CPU usage when running 2 pods
• Survey: AI Tools are Increasing Amount of Bad Code Needing to be Fixed
• Exclusive | Hanging Out at Starbucks? You Now Need to Order Something
• A new AI-powered security tool is promising to reinvent how companies secure login credentials
• Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
• Mullenweg's Grip On WordPress Challenged In New Court Filing
• Apple's AI feature just can’t get it right
• Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data
• Mastodon’s CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization

Nonsense

• DirecTV to offer 'MySports,' a smaller streaming package of 40 channels
• Drake Sues His Label, Calling Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Defamatory
• Hanging Out at Starbucks? You Now Need to Order Something

Listener Feedback

• Capture AI’s Low-Hanging Fruit with Agents
• The Ethics of Using AI Tools at Work ****## Conferences
• CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
• Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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  • The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2025
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This week, we dive into the state of SBOMs, what’s going on with Harness, and the ongoing collision of tech and politics. Plus, Coté finds himself a stranger in the Texas he once called home.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 501

Runner-up Titles

• Who knows what’s going to happen on that side of the planet?
• There are no hacks in The Netherlands.
• I know it’s not the quality.
• An explosion of Eggnog
• The resident American American
• This topic will be boring
• Thank goodness it’s part of my existing vendor relationship
• It’s a webhook, knock yourself out
• They unlocked Ayn Rand
• Hacking it on the mainland

Rundown

• Rust Will Explode, SBOMs Will Be Duds: Open Source Predictions
• Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal on "startups within startups"
• Marc Andreessen on Trump, the vibe shift, and what’s after wokeness
• A 2-hour interview with Andreessen

Relevant to your Interests

• Penpot unfolds their new open-source business model
• Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
• 15 predictions for 2025
• Ray-Ban Meta Crosses 1-Million Mark
• Google Slashes 10% Of Managerial Staff In Hunt For 'Googleyness': Report
• Resilience in Software Foundation
• Amazon Delays RTO Mandate for Thousands of Workers Due to Space
• Community plans to fork Puppet, unhappy with Perforce changes to open-source project
• 5.6 Million Impacted by Ransomware Attack on Healthcare Giant Ascension
• Yoast CEO calls for a 'federated' approach to WordPress repository
• Netflix sues Broadcom in California federal court
• Rust Will Explode, SBOMs Will Be Duds: Open Source Predictions
• OpenAI announces plan to transform into a for-profit company
• How I Replaced Notion with Reminders, Numbers, and Notes
• WordPress Developer Publishes Code To Block Mullenweg's
• Apple stops Vision Pro production amid weak demand and customer dissatisfaction
• Intel’s Problems Are Even Worse Than You’ve Heard
• Disney to combine its Hulu+ Live TV with streamer Fubo
• Parameter Manager overview | Google Cloud
• Nvidia showcases new AI gaming chips that promise high-quality images
• Veracode bolsters SCA product with Phylum acquisition
• 1Password acquires Trelica to extend its cybersecurity capabilities
• Dell Announces All-New Branding with Dell, Dell Pro and Dell Pro Max Laptops

Nonsense

• Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.
• The Great Exhibition unveils the world's only office roller coaster in Stockholm
• Pizza Hut Taiwan Knows It’s Making Italians Angry

Listener Feedback

• Join the Dagster Labs team: Software Engineer - Platform

Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
• Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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This week, we recap the biggest tech news and trends of 2024, grade our predictions from the year, and look ahead to 2025. Plus, we share our New Year’s resolutions.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 500

Runner-up Titles

• I blame Product Management
• I don’t think I’m gonna buy a pair of jeans this year.
• Should I go full Kirkland?
• That’s a boring prediction, but a good prediction
• We need the Dril for LinkedIn
• 2024: the year we internalized the rug pull
• Are you an artist or a house painter?
• The Suicide Squad Strategy
• SSH is failure.
• Resolutions

Rundown

• Revisiting 2024 Predictions
  • Apple Vision Pro
  • Twitter vs. Threads vs. Mastodon vs. Bluesky
• News and Trends from 2024
  • Open Source License Changes
  • Antitrust Investigations
  • AI Is Everywhere
  • Platform Engineering
• Listener Questions
  • What’s worked well for the podcast?
  • What tips do you have for aspiring podcasters?
  • How did NO SSH JJ and Tasty Meats Paul get their nicknames?
• 2025 Predictions
  • Ray-Ban Meta Glasses will not be widely adopted.
  • Apple will keep trying with the Vision Pro, but not much will happen.
  • Federation between social sites will not gain traction; social silos will remain the norm.
  • Nvidia will continue to grow and exert dominance.
  • Tech monopolies will persist, but no significant remedies will be imposed.
• 2025 Resolutions
  • I will accept that OSS projects may change their licenses and adapt accordingly.
  • I will remain calm when OSS projects stop offering easy-to-use, free versions.
  • I will accept that hyperscalers hosting or monetizing OSS projects is inevitable.
  • I will see forking OSS projects after a license change as a natural evolution of open source.
  • I will use AI to summarize my writing and send the summary if it communicates my point more effectively.

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• Brandon:
  • YouTubeTV mostly for Sports Fans
  • Balatro
• Coté: Google Home

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This week, Brandon is joined by Brian Gracely from The Cloudcast to tackle the top cloud news and trends of 2025. We sort through 12 big topics and decide which ones are still worth your time and which ones should be starred. archived, or marked as spam. Plus, some thoughts on Bill Belichick becoming the head coach at UNC.

Runner-up Titles

• OpenAI’s Open Relationship
• Why are you doing this?
• The Pete Rose of Silicon Valley
• Commit Fraud in a Bull Market
• A Phone that Doesn’t Break
• Grouchy
• Parenting Teenagers

Rundown

• Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI: The next wave of innovation and industry impact
• Nvidia’s Role in AI: The power behind the AI boom
• Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Strategy: How Microsoft is positioning itself for the future
• AWS Updates: Key trends and new services from the cloud leader
• Open Source Licensing: Trends, challenges, and changes
• Kubernetes and the CNCF Ecosystem: What’s next for cloud-native computing
• Data Sovereignty and Regulations: How laws are shaping cloud strategies globally
• Repatriation: Is on-prem making a comeback?
• Broadcom/VMware: The fallout and what it means for cloud customers
• Return to Office vs. Work From Home: Policies, debates, and where things stand
• Apple’s Cloud Ambitions: Is Apple finally serious about cloud?
• Bill Belichick at UNC: Leadership lessons from an unexpected crossover

Relevant to your Interests

• Subscribe to The Cloudcast
• China Opens Investigation Into Nvidia Over Potential Antitrust Violations
• Gnomes (South Park)

Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
• Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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This week, we discuss Jeff Barr’s departure from AWS, OpenAI’s latest announcements, and Broadcom’s AI ambitions. Plus, Matt debates the finer points of Australian vs. American Apple Intelligence.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 498

Runner-up Titles

• That’s a streak
• That’s not a thing
• I miss the cold-calling lifestyle
• I miss being a JSON engineer
• I have trust issues with AI
• The metaphor was good
• Welcome to the treadmill

Rundown

• Jeff Barr leaves AWS: And that’s a wrap!
• 12 Days of OpenAI (6-9)
  • Day 6: Advanced voice with video & Santa mode
  • Day 7: Projects in ChatGPT
  • Day 8: Search
  • Day 9: OpenAI o1 and new tools for developers
  • API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues
• Broadcom
  • Broadcom shares rise 13% on profit beat, 'massive' opportunity in AI
  • Nvidia falls into correction territory, down more than 10% from its record close
  • VMware And Custom AI Chips: Broadcom’s Recipe For Explosive Growth

Relevant to your Interests

• Republican lawmakers ask Trump to kill IRS Direct File
• Adobe delivers strong Q4, record Firefly generations, but light outlook
• Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 is now in general availability
• Duolingo has bucked the post-pandemic blues in edtech
• Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
• API, ChatGPT & Sora Facing Issues Incident Report for OpenAI
• AWS re:Invent 2024 - Best practices and new tools for cost reporting and estimation
• BlackBerry sells Cylance for $160M, a fraction of the $1.4B it paid in 2018
• EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Musk's Starlink
• Nuon Seed + Series-A Funding
• Databricks to Hit $62 Billion Valuation in Massive Funding Round
• Android XR: The Gemini era comes to headsets and glasses
• A vision for Android XR
• Gemini 2.0: Our latest, most capable AI model yet
• China orbits first Guowang Internet satellites, with thousands more to come
• Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown

Nonsense

• Trump says GOP will push to eliminate daylight saving time
• Gen Z says no to slim fit pants
• The 1000-Foot High Rollercoaster Dream
• Timey Wimey ## Listener Feedback
• Great site collating AWS reInvent sessions along with their slides

Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
• Civo Navigate North America, San Francisco, Feb 10-11, 2025
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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This week, we discuss the 12 Days of OpenAI, the latest in quantum computing, and Nvidia’s unique management style. Plus, Coté shares his thoughts on turkeys and BBQ.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 497

Runner-up Titles

• Go full-on American
• Multiple days of meat
• Advent of Meat
• Fowl Day
• ChopOps
• Fractured and Scattered
• Mr. Mahalo

Rundown

• 12 Days of OpenAI
  • Update on ChatGPT's impressive growth
  • The phony comforts of AI skepticism
• Quantum Computing
  • Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
  • Google unveils 'mind-boggling' quantum computing chip

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• Why Gelsinger was wrong for Intel | The Observation Deck
• Ousted Intel CEO asks people to “pray and fast” for staff
• He Was Going to Save Intel. He Destroyed $150 Billion of Value Instead.
• Sundar Pichai says Google Search will ‘change profoundly’ in 2025
• Broadcom reverses controversial plan in effort to cull VMware migrations
• Dev-Led Landscape: Transforming a Middle-Aged Startup
• China launches antitrust probe into Nvidia
• Confidential computing at 1Password
• The 50 best video games of 2024
• Chiplet Market Growth Forecast to US$411 Billion by 2035
• Cohesity completes its merger with Veritas; here's how they'll integrate
• Automattic acquires WPAI, a startup that makes AI products for WordPress
• The low-hanging fruit is gone; the hill is steeper now: Sundar Pichai on AI, Future of engg jobs
• What Analysts Are Saying After Oracle's Results Underwhelmed Investors
• Bill Staples on LinkedIn: I am honored and excited to lead GitLab into its next chapter as CEO
• From where I left (Redis)
• Amazon sued by DC attorney general for allegedly excluding neighborhoods from Prime delivery

Nonsense

• Sinister USB-C connector

Listener Feedback

• Intel after Gelsinger / Oxide
• Git ingest

Conferences

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This week, we discuss Intel’s CEO “resignation,” the rise of custom silicon, and the biggest announcements from AWS re:Invent. Plus, some thoughts on the simple satisfaction of label makers.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 496

Runner-up Titles

• re:Primitives
• Primitives, Re:invented
• Chatbots, Call Center Agents and Dev Co-Pilots.
• Thanksquitting
• Even the paranoid die
• Pardon me while I commoditize your business.
• Being paranoid has nothing to do with it
• This is a trailing indicator
• Robotic Cows.
• ARMchair Quarterbacking (that was funny!)
• Arm is going to get X86’d
• One Bill

Rundown

• Intel
  • Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
  • Intel CEO Forced Out After Board Grew Frustrated With Progress
  • Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Resigns After Struggling to Turn Around Chip Maker
  • Intel CEO takes his leave as ambition meets reality
  • Are Intel’s Problems Too Big to Fix?
  • Nvidia Keeps Its Old Chips Selling Hot
• AWS Re:invent 2024
  • Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 | Amazon Web Services
  • CEO Matt Garman unveils the future of cloud with generative AI and agentic workflows
  • Introducing queryable object metadata for Amazon S3 buckets (preview)
  • Amazon EC2 Trn2 Instances and Trn2 UltraServers for AI/ML training and inference are now available
  • New Amazon Q Developer agent capabilities include generating documentation, code reviews, and unit tests
  • Build faster, more cost-efficient, highly accurate models with Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation (preview)
  • New APIs in Amazon Bedrock to enhance RAG applications, now available
  • New RAG evaluation and LLM-as-a-judge capabilities in Amazon Bedrock

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• FTC reportedly opens antitrust investigation into Microsoft | TechCrunch
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• Some Simple Economics of the Google Antitrust Case - Marginal REVOLUTION
• Modern Work Fucking Sucks.
• Broadcom Announces the General Availability of VMware Tanzu Platform
• Gartner Identifies Top Three Priorities for CMOs to Deliver Marketing Excellence in 2025
• Data resilience firm Veeam scores $15B valuation in $2B secondary sale
• LogicMonitor's massive $800M raise shows AI is driving the demand monitoring

Nonsense

• Drones With Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump Into the Air
• How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' Life

Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
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This week, we discuss the relationship between DevOps and Platform Engineering, Gartner’s take on Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, and Nvidia’s search for new use cases. Plus, a listener chimes in to clear up some Podman misconceptions.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 495

Runner-up Titles

• Prove me wrong AWS, prove me wrong
• Please turn off the lights
• Who’s googling for “shift left”?
• I realized what they were talking about, it’s computers
• They’re talking but you’re not listening
• Piling on the dead horse
• We gave this guy $5 billion dollars, check him out
• Podman is Pepsi
• Nobody’s paying for that
• Niche Player

Rundown

• Platform Engineering Is The New DevOps
  • SRE Books
• Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
  • AWS named as a leader again in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
• Nvidia
  • AI Easts the World — Benedict Evans
  • Nvidia revenue almost doubles on the year even as growth slows from previous quarter
  • Nvidia’s Huang Spreads the Gospel of AI in Search of More Customers
  • Amazon Updates Homegrown Chips, Even as It Grows Nvidia Ties
  • Nvidia Earnings, Strawberry and Video, The Networking Question
• Podman:
  • Podman in Action | Red Hat Developer
  • Kubernetes Podcast from Google: Episode 164 - Podman, with Daniel Walsh and Brent Baude
  • DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling | Podman In Action: Desktop, Machine, and more

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• Microsoft Ignite 2024: Everything Revealed in 15 Minutes
• Microsoft Ignite 2024: all the news from Microsoft’s IT pro event
• AWS Lambda turns ten – looking back and looking ahead | Amazon Web Services
• Kyndryl insiders claim new business is scarce
• Snowflake snaps up data management company Datavolo
• Northflank raises $22M to make Kubernetes work for your developers
• Overcast adds new listening stats and 48-hour undo features
• Reddit was down — latest updates on major outage
• Wiz acquires Dazz for $450M to expand its cybersecurity platform
• Comcast is spinning off its cable TV business
• Snowflake’s shares surge higher on blowout earnings,
• Clouded Judgement 11.22.24 - Is Software Back?
• WordPress.com owner Automattic snaps up grammar checker Harper
• DHH Wants To Make Web Dev Easy Again, With Ruby on Rails
• Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
• Kamal 2.0 Released
• 'I have no money': Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
• Pentagon audit highlights woeful ERP systems
• Delivering 4K Video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18
• First Google Axion Processor Now Available: Claims Best Performance in Cloud Market
• Glassdoor Worklife Trends 2025 - Glassdoor US

Nonsense

• It looks like Backstage is working out.
• European Showers
• KFC’s latest partnership is with Build-A-Bear Workshop
• Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone | SSOReady

Listener Feedback

• Andrew created the Multiple Tab to PDF Printer

Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025.
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This week, we cover Netflix’s streaming hiccups, cloud earnings updates, Red Hat’s CNCF donations, and the potential sale of Chrome. Plus, a few thoughts on parenting.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 494

Runner-up Titles

• The dog peed on it.
• Jamin’s favorite Excel macros.
• Change up the noodles.
• 0.7 good tips there
• The tiniest of rebellions
• Win one for the stockholders
• Candor
• A datacenter with a gift shop.
• VP of Cables has cucumber water with VP of Monitors.
• You can’t open source a monitor.

Rundown

• Netflix
  • Netflix’s Boxing Event, Customer Acquisition vs. Churn Mitigation, Accounting for Events
  • Disney sets India Cricket Viewership Record for TV, streaming during World Cup
  • Netflix Culture
• Earnings
  • Amazon Reports Record $15.3 Billion Profit
  • Clouded Judgement 11.1.24 - Amazon, Google, Microsoft & Meta on AI and CapEx
  • Amazon Earnings, Robotics and Amazon’s Expanding 1P Business
  • Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity
  • Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud
• Going Open Source
  • Red Hat to Donate Podman Along With Other Container Tools to CNCF
  • Salesforce’s Heroku platform open-sources Twelve Factor project
  • Twelve-Factor App Methodology is now Open Source
• DOJ Will Push Google to Sell off Chrome to Break Search Monopoly

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• These are the passwords you definitely shouldn’t be using
• Datacenter Anatomy Part 1: Electrical Systems
• New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm
• AI companies hit a scaling wall
• Invisible asymptotes — Remains of the Day
• Clouded Judgement 11.14.24 - Market Tipping to Growth
• For the first time in 25 years, the number of software engineers dropped
• The CNCF's plan to crowdfight patent trolls
• Maybe Bluesky has “won”
• Having 30,000 followers makes you a celebrity, UK advertising watchdog rules
• The Influence of Bell Labs
• Leaked Amazon memos identify critical flaws in the upcoming AI version of Alexa
• RIP to RPA: The Rise of Intelligent Automation | Andreessen Horowitz
• Twenty is building an open source alternative to Salesforce
• Chips
  • RISC-V — the CPU you didn’t know you already have
  • Arm to Cancel Qualcomm Chip Design License
  • The RVA23 profile is now ratified, so RISC-V gets satisfied
  • Intel losses hit $16.6B as restructuring efforts take a toll
  • Intel Was Just Dropped From the Dow
  • How much Apple Silicon improves with each release

Nonsense

• Bojangles to install ordering kiosks across its system
• 'Simpsons'-themed broadcast means Bengals-Cowboys won't be flexed

Listener Feedback

• Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG
• LibreLinkUp Status Bar a VS Code extension to display good glucose level in the status bar

Conferences

• CfgMgmtCamp, February 2rd to 5th.
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This week, we cover OpenCost’s big incubation milestone, CNCF's graduation rules, and a flurry of tech acquisitions. Plus, some thoughts on teaching kids about passwords.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 493

Runner-up Titles

• Yes, No, Maybe
• Infinite Password Loop
• Bring your kids to work day: passwords.
• Password Talk
• Escaping characters
• Stone Cold Steve Austin
• Don’t hire people with pets
• Eats AWS stuff natively.
• I compete on my ASCII character set.Stay in the sandbox
• Enron for cloud purchasing

Rundown

• OpenCost Advances to CNCF Incubation
• Episode 492: Aran Khanna on Cloud Insurance
• VMware
  • Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery
  • New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations
• M&A
  • Apple to Acquire Pixelmator, Maker of Popular Photo-Editing Apps
  • Red Hat acquires AI optimization startup Neural Magic
  • IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
  • Snyk Acquires Developer-First DAST Provider Probely
  • IBM’s Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year
• VMware
  • Reflections from Explore Barcelona and the Challenges of Modern App Delivery
  • New SMB subscription may not end VMware migrations
  • Coté’s take on Explore, in last week’s Cloud Foundry Weekly.
• RTO
  • Amazon employees are a flight risk after the new return-to-office mandate, research reveals
  • Remote work reduces child penalties by roughly half
  • Read the letter sent to AWS CEO Matt Garman, signed by 500 employees,
  • Amazon CEO Andy Jassy denies that 5-day office mandate is a 'backdoor layoff'
  • Washington Post Employees Ordered Back to Office 5 Days a Week
  • Everyone agrees: A shorter workweek is great!
  • Return-to-office mandates are more than “backdoor layoffs”

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• Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI
• Threads has 275 M Monthly Users
• Dropbox is laying off 20% of its global workforce
• From IaC to Cloud Management: Pulumi's Evolution Story
• For Jeff Bezos and his businesses, Washington has become more important
• Russian court fines Google $2 decillion
• GitHub Next | GitHub Spark
• The MacBook Air gets a surprise upgrade to 16GB of RAM
• Meta says open sourcing Llama models will be a money-saver
• Google employees pressure costumed execs at all-hands meeting for clarity on cost cuts
• Intel’s future laptops will have memory sticks again
• Against Incident Severities and in Favor of Incident Types
• Nintendo Just Launched a Music Streaming App, and It's Surprisingly Good
• Why The US Military Chose Silicon-Graphene Batteries
• Warren Buffett’s GEICO repatriates work from the cloud
• Google Confirms Jarvis AI Is Real by Accidentally Leaking It
• Curbside charging is coming to Michigan.
• Nintendo says the Switch successor will be compatible with Switch games
• Platform vs. DevEx teams: What’s the difference?
• Why Strava Is a Privacy Risk for the President (and You Too)
• Thunderbolt 5: Only Necessary for the Most Demanding Uses
• Guide to Selling Your Company
• The mystery of Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s great disrupter
• IronCalc
• Neptyne is shutting down
• OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI
• Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama
• Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months' severance
• Automattic's new site tracks how many websites left WP Engine following feud
• Cloudflare Blocks Automattic's WP Engine Tracker For Phishing
• We’re leaving Kubernetes - Blog

Nonsense

• 'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians

Listener Feedback

• Anova Precision™ Oven 2.0

Conferences

• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
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Brandon interviews Aran Khanna, CEO of Archera, on user privacy, his work on DeepLens at AWS, and Archera’s "cloud insurance" model. Plus, Aran shares how he lost his Facebook internship before it started.

Show Links

• Why it's not your fault that you're sharing too much online
• Get started with Archera
• Archera.ai

Contact Aran

• LinkedIn: Aran Khanna
• Twitter: arankhanna

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Special Guest: Aran Khanna.

This week, we discuss the latest DORA report and what happens when open-source projects make money. Plus, some thoughts on Halloween abroad in the Netherlands and Australia.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 491

Runner-up Titles

• This is a lifestyle business.
• The Benioff Line.
• Mahalo
• The innings in the marathon
• We’re left picking up the trash
• 20 pounds of crap in a 10 pound sack
• Focus on all parts of the chain
• If any open source project creates value, it’s going to create resentment.
• The Open Source Success Paradox
• Mad King for Cash. (In the world of Brandon’s mind.)

Rundown

• DORA
  • 2024 State of DevOps Report
  • Listener Chris did some live PDF reading in the SDT Slack
  • Key findings and takeaways from this year’s State of DevOps report
  • DORA Community of Practice
  • AI is terrible at shift-left (DORA Models and Practices)
• Trademarks and OSS
  • The Wordpress Drama Interview (this got cited in a lawsuit
  • Elasticsearch is open source, again with Shay Banon
  • Linkerd Forever

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• Excel enters its 40th year
• San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks
• Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
• Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
• Ghosts in the Machine - JSTOR Daily
• Apple opens Private Cloud Compute to public scrutiny
• #1467 OpenCost Incubation Proposal #1046 (vote closed)
• Big Blue
• Balatro creator admits his attempt to 100% his own roguelike game before the mobile port was doomed, and now he has "some words for John Balatro"
• We finally have an 'official' definition for open source AI
• Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai
• A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Does the Pentagon.
• Apple’s new Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad have USB-C

Nonsense

• Severance season two teaser trailer shows the world's worst return-to-office policy in action
• Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team

Listener Feedback

• T-Mobile back up Home Internet

Conferences

• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024, Coté speaking.
• GoTech World, Bucharest, Nov 12- 13, 2204, Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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This week, we talk about Anthropic's new AI agent, cloud exits, and why BMC is splitting up. Plus, a quick update on the WordPress drama and some thoughts on Amsterdam’s autumn weather.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 490

Runner-up Titles

• The Abyss Looks Into You
• ROI Stuff
• RTO Agent

Rundown

• AI Agents
  • The AI agents have arrived
  • Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
  • Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
• Wordpress
  • Open source royalty and mad kings
  • Casey Newton on Mullenweg
  • Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos
• Cloud Exits
  • Warren Buffett’s GEICO repatriates work from the cloud
  • Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its “cloud exit” will save it $10M over 5 years
  • There's a lot of private cloud out there
• BMC
  • BMC Announces the Creation of Two Independent Companies
  • Doubling down on AI and splitting at BMC Connect 2024

Relevant to your Interests

• #1046 OpenCost Incubation Proposal
• US Weighs Google Breakup in Historic Big Tech Antitrust Case
• ChatGPT Crossed a Revenue Milestone and (Re)Started a Gold Rush
• Ask HN: What happens to “.io” TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?
• From AOL Time Warner to DirecTV and Dish: 20 years of media mergers
• AT&T claims VMware offered it a 1,050 percent price rise
• CEO Kurian: 'When I Started, Most People Told Me We Didn't Have a Chance'
• AMD looks to new chips to grab share from Intel, Nvidia
• The list of major companies requiring employees to return to the office
• Avoiding a Geopolitical Open Source Apocalypse
• Overview of current needs and possibilities in enterprise-y FinOps
• Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
• Eric Schmidt on electronic warfare
• 700 Ubisoft workers go on three-day strike to protest company’s new return-to-office policy
• Amazon's cloud boss on Thursday told employees who are unhappy with the company's new five-day in-office mandate they can leave for other companies.
• Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.
• Tesla Caught Using a Lazy Video Editing Trick to Make Its "Autonomous" Robots Look More Capable
• How Google is changing to compete with ChatGPT
• Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation
• Sophos to Acquire Secureworks to Accelerate Cybersecurity Services and Technology for Organizations Worldwide
• Chick-fil-A is releasing its own entertainment app, with family-friendly shows and podcasts
• Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more
• Foursquare is killing its city guide app to focus on the check-in app Swarm
• Citi reaps rewards from modernization investments
• Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
• How Wiz Became the Fastest Software Company to Hit $500M & Its Path to $1B
• In a global first, quantum computers crack RSA and AES data encryption
• Google Executive Overseeing Search and Advertising Leaves Role
• Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising
• Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source
• Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – "we'll remain fierce competitors"
• The RVA23 profile is now ratified, so RISC-V gets satisfied
• Twitter users flock to Bluesky as 500,000 join in a day amid controversial blocking changes
• Nvidia's Blackwell AI Processors Are Sold Out For Next 12 Months
• Announcing Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey - AWS

Nonsense

• What the Waffle House Index says about Hurricane Milton
• Waffle House (@WaffleHouse) on X
• The Hustlers Who Make $6,000 a Month by Gaming Citi Bikes
• The VW ID. Buzz was worth the seven-year wait

Listener Feedback

• World’s Largest Buffalo Monument
• 20+ of Canada's Largest Roadside Attractions
• Our big things vs their big things

Conferences

• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024, Coté speaking.
• GoTech World, Bucharest, Nov 12- 13, 2204, Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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This episode is from the reboot of Software Defined Interviews. Whitney Lee joins Coté to discuss her varied career path, from artist and wedding photographer to her career in DevRel within the cloud-native world. They kick off this revamped series with an engaging conversation. Expect new episodes of Software Defined Interviews every two weeks!

Subscribe at softwaredefinedinterviews.com.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 489.

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Special Guest: Whitney Lee.

This week, we discuss WordPress paying employees to quit, the perils of management by fear, and Matt shutting down his datacenter. Plus, the definitive top 5 ranking of Australia’s iconic Big Things.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 488

Runner-up Titles

• The Spirit of Open Source
• Debating ‘Benevolent’
• The Hero 1-Day Guy
• The Mullenweg Way
• He has Been Great for Podcasting
• Spider Vacuuming

Rundown

• A Guide To 30 Of Australia's Iconic Big Things
• More WordPress
  • WordPress cofounder is paying employees to leave if they disagree with him
  • The WordPress Saga: Does Matt Mullenwegg Want a Fork or Not?
  • Automattic demanded web host pay $32M annually for using WordPress trademark
  • WP Engine sues WordPress co-creator Mullenweg and Automattic, alleging abuse of power
  • Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’
  • Automattic Alignment
• RTO or GFTO / Oxide

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• Wayback Machine integrated into Google search
• OpenStack Dalmatian debuts with better dashboard, security
• Gmail adding redesigned summary cards to your inbox with ‘Happening soon’
• How I exited the cloud
• As data center usage heats up, Submer raises $55.5M to cool things down
• Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan
• A Look Back at Q2 '24 Public Cloud Software Earnings
• Google’s AI search summaries officially have ads
• OpenWrt One WiFi 6 router samples are now available for $89 - Liliputing
• Elastic CTO Shay Banon on suing AWS and returning to OSS
• AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, open source, and closing services
• Bitcoin’s inventor is a mystery. An HBO filmmaker thinks he found him.
• HBO doc names Bitcoin creator suspect - who says ‘not me’
• Apple Tweaks Screen Recording App Permissions to Decrease Popup Frequency

Nonsense

• Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Austin, Texas - Waymo
• NYC Costco shoppers empty shelves in panic over port strike

Conferences

• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024, Coté speaking.
• GoTech World, Bucharest, Nov 12- 13, 2204, Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024, Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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This week, we recap the WordPress showdown between Automattic and WP Engine, and discuss the future of OpenAI. Plus, Coté has a lot (maybe too much) to say about Chick-fil-A coming to the UK.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 487

Runner-up Titles

• Time change is a-comin’.
• Don’t worry, I’m wearing clothes under this bathrobe.
• Where-ever there are chickens, there is fried chicken, I assume.
• Waffle Chips
• Free Refills and Ice
• The tyranny of no free refills
• Take the Five Guy approach
• You can’t change the rules in the race
• Fill the square

Rundown

• Chick-fil-A to open in the UK
• Wordpress
  • Big chronological list of WordPress/WP Engine drama
  • The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained
  • How much would it cost to fork WordPress?
  • Charitable Contributions
• OpenAI
  • New funding to scale the benefits of AI
  • OpenAI Is A Bad Business

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• Announcing Upgraded Docker Plans
• OpenAI Discusses Giving Altman 7% Stake in For-Profit Transition
• Intel's Transformation 2.0
• Intel begins reducing real estate holdings worldwide
• Arm Is Rebuffed by Intel After Inquiring About Buying Product Unit
• Hurricane Helene May Have Given Intel
• Pure Storage announces VM assessment service
• Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I
• Clouded Judgement 9.27.24 - The Foundation of Foundation Models
• The streaming wars are over.
• Uber’s next act: taking on Amazon
• Trump Says He'll Prosecute Google If He Retakes Power
• Epic is suing Google — again — and now Samsung, too
• Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster
• Observe Inc. Introduces AI-Powered Observability, Closes Series B Funding Of $145M
• How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry
• How to share your access to media with family and simultaneously sweep the annual nerdy nephew of the year awards

Nonsense

• A guide to 30 of Australia's iconic Big Things
• Chick-fil-A to open in the UK

Listener Feedback

• Observability Architect (Remote, USA)

Conferences

• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• GoTech World, Coté speaking, Bucharest, Nov 12th and 13th.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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This week, we discuss the intersection of DevOps and Platform Engineering, the latest WordPress drama, and some M&A tips for Intel. Plus, a few recommendations on using iPhone mirroring.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 486

Runner-up Titles

• I’m out of nuts, time to podcast
• System Settings
• Security, it never ends
• Fancy Sysadmins
• Providing needles for your balloons
• Batman’s not real
• What’s the opposite of a taboo
• DevOps is not the tooling
• Software gets old
• Release the turbo button

Rundown

• ‎Windows App
• PlatformDays vs. DevOpsDays
  • Has DevOps been "worth it" to you?
  • Renaming a few DevOpsDays to PlatformDays.
  • Tossed Salads And Scrumbled Eggs
• Digital Transformation Gone Wrong
  • How Sonos Botched an App and Infuriated Its Customers
  • FAA air traffic control modernization efforts are a mess
• Apple
  • Apple launches iPhone 16 with Apple Intelligence
  • Apple removes Control-click option for skipping Gatekeeper in macOS Sequoia
• Intel
  • Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
  • Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl
• Wordpress Drama
  • Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a 'cancer to WordPress' and urges community to switch providers
  • Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP
  • WordCamp US & Ecosystem Thinking
  • WP Engine responds

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• IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims
• Comment on #1262 Health of Linkerd project
• Starbucks New CEO on Return to Office: ‘We’re All Adults Here’
• Yaak Is Now Open Source
• OpenAI to Decide Which Backers to Let Into $6.5 Billion Funding
• Google rolls out automatic passkey syncing via Password Manager
• A Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management
• Companies Like to Pit Internal Teams Against Each Other. Bad Idea.
• Microsoft has announced new efforts to improve its cybersecurity systems
• Oracle Sees $104 Billion Sales in Fiscal 2029 on Cloud Expansion
• Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds
• Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership
• John Mulaney got paid $2M to show up to Dreamforce and say this
• The Cloud is Darker and More Full of Terrors
• Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning
• IBM AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff
• More Americans – especially young adults – are regularly getting news on TikTok
• Meta Unveils 'Orion' Augmented Reality Glasses
• Google Rehired Noam Shazeer With Major Payout,
• Congress grills CrowdStrike about multibillion-dollar July outage
• Wiz In Talks to Sell Shares at Valuation as High as $20 Billion
• Google files Brussels complaint against Microsoft cloud business
• Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app
• Progress update on Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative
• OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look
• Intel launches new AI chips as takeover rumors swirl
• Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report

Nonsense

• Grocery chains are bigger than ever. See who runs the stores near you.

Conferences

• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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This week, we discuss IBM acquiring Kubecost, AWS moving OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation, and Amazon employees heading back to the office. Plus, some thoughts on what it means to be in "employee mode."

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 485

Runner-up Titles

• That’s a good looking setup there
• Feels like sweatpants
• London’s busy, Amsterdam's laid back
• AIFinOps
• Mission Bankruptcy
• The settings page is more than 1 page
• Don’t get turned into hamburger, that’s the goal
• Feature checkbox acquisition.
• Employee Mode
• Using people as a whiteboard.
• Work on smarter things, not dumber things.

Rundown

• Announcing Kubecost’s Acquisition by IBM!
• AWS hands OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation
• Update from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on return-to-office plans and manager team ratio
• JPMorgan creates new role overseeing junior bankers as Wall Street wrestles with workload concerns

Relevant to your Interests

• OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Value to $150 Billion
• Lyft CEO keeps it real on his stock price compared to Uber
• We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI
• How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector
• Wall Street Curbs Young Bankers’ Hours After Overwork Outcry
• Unity is Canceling the Runtime Fee
• Intel Awarded up to $3B by the Biden-Harris Administration
• Free 'JavaScript' from Legal Clutches of Oracle, Devs Petition
• Instagram makes teen accounts private by default
• Cisco's second layoff of 2024 affects thousands of employees
• Call For Proposals (CFP) | LF Events
• Londoners will soon see drones ferrying blood between hospitals

Nonsense

• Polishing Cloth
• United Airlines is adding free Starlink Wi-Fi to all of its planes
• Founder mode, baby #tech #founder #foundermode
• Chipotle’s New Guac Robots Can Peel Your Avocados in 26 Seconds
• LinkedIn Roaster - Brutal honesty for your profile
• SpaceX Starlink has 2,500 airplanes under contract after United megadeal, director says
• Passport renewals go digital to ease wait times for American travelers

Conferences

• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP

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This week, we discuss Dell's growth in AI servers, GEICO’s transition from VMware to OpenStack, and the concept of Kingmaking. Plus, plenty of thoughts on USB hubs.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 484

Runner-up Titles

• You just put it in a different USB port
• I am just going to repeat thing you say
• A Decade of Aftershow
• Happy Anniversary
• Whatever :43 it is for you
• Cascading hubs not supported anywhere.
• Mac Dongle Pro
• Getting DevOps to work on Intel
• Enterprise Gaming PCs.
• Brian Cantrell as Elon Musk
• Computers are awesome
• Matt and JJ can always go to GIECO.
• I’ll take the more.
• Really good surfers

Rundown

• Dell
  • Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be
  • There's a lot of private cloud out there
• OpenStack
  • US insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack
  • VMware Migration to OpenStack
• King Making

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• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Surprised by Skeptics
• Nvidia Has Held Discussions About Joining OpenAI’s Funding Round
• Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise plan to compete with OpenAI
• What's Behind Elastic's Unexpected Return to Open Source?
• The startup teaching your computer how to smell
• Automatically summarize Word documents with Copilot
• Intel's Lunar Lake Looks Like a Home Run
• AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI
• The Self-Destruction of Open Source Software
• Confluent acquires streaming data startup WarpStream
• There are almost no IPOs.
• Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works
• Charles Schwab Adopts PostgreSQL (With VMware Tanzu)

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Nonsense

• Delta, Other Airline Loyalty Programs Are Being Probed by US
• The 35-Year-Old CEO Plotting Red Lobster’s Comeback
• New Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol outlines priorities to end coffee chain's slump
• Historic Newspaper Uses Janky AI Newscasters Instead of Human Journalists

Conferences

• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
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This week, we discuss Intel's challenges, Elastic's adopting the AGPL, and getting AI to introduce itself. Plus, some thoughts on a gesticulating flâneur using a speakerphone in public.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 483

Runner-up Titles

• Why are you in an attic
• Flâneur
• Gesticulating
• That’s not
  
• I’m over the big pile of nachos
• What’s your corporate strategy here?
• They carry the flame
• Keeper of the Flame
• Cote’ likes weather
• Brakenthetical

Rundown

• Intel
  • Intel Said to Explore Options to Cope With Historic Slump
  • Intel debuts second-gen Core Ultra mobile chips in bid to fend off Qualcomm, AMD
  • 'Time is running out' for Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger: Analyst
  • Report: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to reveal new plan to cut costs and sell off business units
  • “Broadcom and Intel?”
  • Qualcomm’s new eight-core Snapdragon X Plus makes these Windows laptops cheaper
  • Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors at AheadComputing
• OSS Licensing
  • Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again
  • Why Elastic (ESTC) Shares Are Trading Lower Today
  • The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
  • Post-Open Source (circa 2020)

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• Data infrastructure startup Cribl raises $319M at a $3.5B valuation
• Cribl Closes $319M Series E Round at a $3.5B Valuation to Revolutionize Enterprise Data Management
• Broadcom Launches Rally Anywhere
• Courts close the loophole letting the feds search your phone at the border
• GitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation
• Amazon's Remarkable Alexa will reportedly run on Claude AI and cost $5-10 per month
• Artifacts are now generally available
• Founder Mode
• Research Papers into Podcasts via Google Illuminate
• Andreessen Horowitz Ditches Miami Two Years After Opening Office
• Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over 'illegal database' of faces
• China leads in up to 89% of tech research, study shows
• This 451 Research highlights Kloudfuse

Nonsense

• Beaches are for people who enjoy the bureaucracy of going to the beach.
• Costco membership fee increase starts Sept. 1 for new members and renewals.
• The penny.

Sponsor

• Nasuni: Head to nasuni.com/software and see how it can revolutionize your data infrastructure today!

Listener Feedback

• Amazon.com: Fulext Sleep Headphones Bluetooth Headband
• Shokz Bone Conduction Headphone

Conferences

• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024.
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• VMware Explore Barcelona, Nov 4-7, 2024. Coté speaking.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.

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This week, we discuss our AI usage, recap key announcements from VMware Explore, and examine RedMonk's analysis of how open-source licensing impacts revenue and market cap. Plus, some thoughts on power bricks.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 482

Runner-up Titles

• Information wants to be free, yo
• Stay In The Bushes
• Tip Jar Culture
• Tell Me About Meatloaf
• I want you in here with me
• Platforms For Building Platforms
• Private SaaS
• Mom and Dad having a fun conversation on a road trip
• I have my special chargers
• I want it back

Rundown

• Sign up for Coté’s Newsletter
• IDC's Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending
• Private Cloud at VMware Explore - Notebook
• Cursor.com
• OSS
  • Software Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial Outcomes
  • Coté’s proposal for how to fix it.
  • Another Thread from Adam Jacob on OSS
• Zoom Docs Is Here. Is It Any Good?

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• Apple’s App Store Head to Leave in Reorganization Amid Global Scrutiny
• Snowflake Outlook Fails to Ease Investor Fears of Competition
• Microsoft revamps reporting structure to give better visibility into cloud consumption revenue
• More than 28% of Americans are searching for new jobs — the highest rate in a decade
• Microsoft is reportedly making more branding changes for Copilot business services
• SolarWinds left hardcoded credentials in helpdesk product
• Intel has hired Morgan Stanley, other advisers for activist defense
• The Future of the Trade Show Industry – Are We In Danger of Losing Our Soul?
• The massive Social Security number breach is actually a good thing
• Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
• Grafana Labs raises $270M
• Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software,
• Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack
• Sonos App Debacle Leaves Company Racing to Save Its Reputation

Nonsense

• Chick-fil-A Opens First Elevated Drive-Thru Concept
• How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche
• NASA Picks SpaceX to Rescue Astronauts Marooned in Space
• The startup teaching your computer how to smell

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Coté Speaking, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary.
• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024.
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.
• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW.
• SREday Amsterdam, Nov 21st, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY.

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This week, we discuss CockroachDB's relicensing, the ongoing debate about remote work, and platform engineering. Plus, some thoughts on the use of speakerphones in public.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 481

Runner-up Titles

• Put in your AirPods
• People’s lives are boring
• More than zero
• Know your risks
• Violating the social contract
• Keeping my “Rug Pull” card
• Love of the code
• I call it a waiting room

Rundown

• Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay
  • Justin Warren’s newsletter this week.
  • Oxide: Whither CockroachDB? (RFD) and Whither CockroachDB? (Podcast)
• Remote Work
  • Eric Schmidt Walks Back Claim Google Is Behind on AI Because of Remote Work
  • New Starbuck’s CEO gets remote office
• Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management?

Relevant to your Interests

• Exclusive: Sonos considers relaunching its old app
• Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues
• Palo Alto Networks apologizes as sexist marketing misfires
• NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards
• Threads is testing a slew of new features like scheduling and analytics
• Google and Meta ignored their own rules in secret teen-targeting ad deals
• FTC finalizes rule to prohibit sale or purchase of fake reviews
• Goodfire raises $7M for its ‘brain surgery’-like AI observability platform
• Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11
• The US lays out a road safety plan that will see cars 'talk' to each other
• Jeff Bezos’ famed leadership rules are being tested inside Amazon
• Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs"
• Swiss Startup Connects 16 Human Mini-Brains to Create Low Energy 'Biocomputer'
• AMD to acquire server builder ZT Systems for $4.9 billion in cash and stock
• The unique promise of 'biological computers' made from living things
• Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity 'technocapitalist' school
• Inside the Snowflake-Databricks Rivalry, and Why Both Fear Microsoft
• Assessing Broadcom VMware Eight Months On
• Morpheus Data Origin Story
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire Morpheus Data

Nonsense

• Waymos honking
• Saudi man earns world record for 444 game consoles hooked to one TV

Conferences

• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with code SRE20DAY
• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW

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This week, we revisit our 2021 Intel CEO predictions, discuss Hyperscaler AI investment concerns and debate LinkedIn content. Plus, which products could thrive if Google were broken up?

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 480

Runner-up Titles

• New camera, dog is still here
• Teenagers can put away some meat
• We operated at a loss last year because of BBQ
• Dog ate your Internet
• Getting out of a Zoom
• Under the couch data center
• Excuse me can I plug in my Satellite Dish
• A lot of 86-stuff
• You shouldn’t be AI-ing that much
• Out of tokens, again
• Never bet against inertia
• Home of Markdown
• One cord, all power.

Rundown

• Looking back at Intel Predicatons
  • SDT Episode 281
  • Gaudi processors & Intel's AI portfolio
  • How chip giant Intel spurned OpenAI and fell behind the times
• Is AI too expensive for HyperScalers?
  • Microsoft’s AI Dreams Make for an Expensive Reality
  • Amazon's cloud unit reports 19% revenue growth, topping estimates
  • Big Tech Fails to Convince Wall Street That AI Is Paying Off
  • Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans
• Are all LinkedIn posts just a form of virtue signaling?
  • There’s One Thing You Really Don’t Need to Do After Getting Laid Off
• Lighting round
  • US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
  • H-E-B is finally testing Apple Pay,

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• Why CSV is still king
• Missing Semester IAP 2020
• iOS 18 has fulfilled my dream of destroying ads with a Thanos snap
• Sonos reportedly delaying two upcoming product releases to fix its misbehaving app
• Apple’s Mac Mini With M4 Chip Will Be Its Smallest Computer Ever
• Background check company breached, nearly 3 billion exposed in data theft
• Apple's new USB-C charging has driven us all to Charging Cord Hell
• The Wizard of Cyber: what is behind Wiz's success
• Brands should avoid this popular term. It’s turning off customers
• Datadog, MongoDB, Snowflake in spotlight as cloud consumption rose in July: BofA
• The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster
• Google takes another startup out of the AI race
• How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry
• Delta CEO offers employees free flights after CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos
• Microsoft says Delta ignored Satya Nadella’s offer of CrowdStrike help
• External Technical Root Cause Analysis

Nonsense

• not sure why barking at it didn't help tbh. 12/10 for both #weratedogs
• Starbucks replaces CEO Laxman Narasimhan with Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol

Listener Feedback

• How South of the Border Keeps Going After All These Years
• Apple's new USB-C charging has driven us all to Charging Cord Hell
• XBox Game Pass Ultimate

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
• Cloud Foundry Day EU, Karlsruhe, GER, Oct 9, 2024, 20% off with code CFEU24VMW20
• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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This week, we discuss what people buy for Kubernetes, the latest cloud earnings, enterprise product management, and health records coming to apps. Plus, why I-95 is the most important U.S. interstate.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 479

Runner-up Titles

• Eat some sausages
• I can’t eat good cheese
• Certified Thought Leader

Rundown

• What people buy for Kubernetes
• Exploring the State of Cloud Native App Platforms and VMware Tanzu
• Clouded Judgement 8.2.24 - Uncertainty Everywhere
• Your health records are coming to new apps. Here's why
• Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA)
• Coté’s recent talk about AI in healthcare with JT Perry
• Now is the time for innovation in healthcare, with JT Perry

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• Amazon countersues Nokia for a dozen patent infringements
• SentinelOne CEO On CrowdStrike Outage: ‘Not Just An Honest Mistake’
• Apple snubs Nvidia for AI training kit, chooses Google
• Kyndryl records first quarterly profit as consulting strengthens
• Intel to Cut Jobs, Suspend Dividend in Cost-Saving Push
• Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years
• Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw
• Apple’s pause of its RTP campus may reflect bigger changes at work
• Market Guide for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms
• AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia
• AWS breaking changes and price increases
• Killed by AWS tracker

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• Please Like Me

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• Interstate 95

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
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• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
• Civo Navigate Europe, Berlin, Sept 10-11, 2024
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024. Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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This week, we discuss Meta making Llama "open source," Microsoft (over)investing in AI, and AWS doing some spring cleaning. Plus, a lightning round and lamenting the end of Southwest Airlines' open seating.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 478

Runner-up Titles

• Meat in pastry
• Llama in sheep’s clothing
• Cookies again
• Joining the ranks of the rank
• I don’t like it, but I like the things he said
• Rug pull source
• Where is the source for legless VR?
• Be quiet and do your job
• They’re all ruthless

Rundown

• Southwest Airlines is getting rid of open seating
• Meta
  • Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
  • Try Llama
  • Meta Sales Surpass Estimates on Advertising Growth; Shares Jump
• MSFT
  • Microsoft stock drops over 6% after results fall short in latest AI disappointment
  • Azure outage
  • Microsoft's costs in focus as fears rise over slow payoff from AI
• AWS Spring Cleaning
  • The end of the Everything Cloud
  • Codecommit - cannot create a repository
  • AWS is quietly killing off some services under its new CEO
• CrowdStrike Follow Up
  • Microsoft calls for Windows changes and resilience after CrowdStrike outage
  • Delta hires David Boies to seek damages from CrowdStrike, Microsoft after outage
  • 4,000 flights canceled. Had to manually reset 40,000 servers
  • How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us
  • Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard
• Lighting Round
  • Apple Maps launches on the web to take on Google
  • 100 million using WhatsApp across the United States
  • Sonos apologized for messing up its app and has offered a roadmap for fixing everything
  • OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine

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• Here's why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior
• CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
• Report: Apple beginning serious work on a foldable iPhone
• Who will control the future of AI?
• Google cancels plans to kill off cookies for advertisers
• Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.
• Announcing Chainguard's Series C
• ChatGPT highly anticipated Voice Mode to launch next week — here’s how to get it
• CrowdStrike’s CEO Has Known Failure—but Never Like This
• Why open source is not a good strategy for startups.
• CrowdStrike Outage Puts Its Financial Reporting Under Scrutiny, Too
• Alphabet Second Quarter 2024 Earnings: EPS Beats Expectations
• Apple admits to using Google Tensor hardware to train Apple Intelligence
• The re:Invent session catalog was released
• Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers, Says Stack Overflow
• Lawrence Hecht on LinkedIn: Developer Unemployment at Highest Level Since 2019
• Video game industry has set a tragic new record for in-year layoffs

Nonsense

• The Scale of Life

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Conferences

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary
• SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024 Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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This week, we discuss the CrowdStrike outage, FinOps data exports, and the state of open-source forks. Plus, Matt shares some exciting exclusive news about his future!

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 477

Runner-up Titles

• Matt Ray Explains
• Channel File 291
• Documenting CYA
• An intern did it
• Default lifestyle strikes again
• All the Nelson GIFs

Rundown

• CrowdStrike
  • Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
  • 12-hour timelapse of airline traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history
  • Flights grounded and offices hit as internet users face disruptions
  • TODAY (@TODAYshow) on X
  • George Kurtz (@George_Kurtz) on X
  • CrowdStrike’s Global Outage Doesn’t Have to Be a Recurring Nightmare
  • Heard on the Street: CrowdStrike May Get More Than a Slap
  • What Happened to Digital Resilience?
  • SolarWinds Defeats Part of SEC’s Fraud Case Over Hack
  • Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts
  • Microsoft tried to get AV vendors to use APIs
  • House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage
  • Crashes and Competition
  • The CrowdStrike Failure Was a Warning
  • Defective McAfee update causes worldwide meltdown of XP PCs
  • CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed
  • CrowdStrike Update: Latest News, Lessons Learned from a Retired Microsoft Engineer
  • CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
• Announcing Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 (Preview) in AWS Billing and Cost Management
• Wiz walks away from $23 billion deal with Google, will pursue IPO
• Import and export Markdown in Google Docs
• Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
• The Post-Valkey World
• A tale of two forks - comparing Valkey/Redis and OpenTofu/Terraform!
• Datadog rumoured to be sniffing round GitLab as tech M&A market heats up
• Google-Backed Software Developer GitLab Eyes Sale, Reuters Says

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• What It Really Takes to Build an AI Datacenter
• State of Developer Experience 2024
• The Return-to-Office Productivity Argument Is Over
• A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web
• The search for the random numbers that run our lives
• OpenAI is releasing a cheaper, smarter model
• Microsoft unveils a large language model that excels at encoding spreadsheets
• Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator
• IBM shares jump on earnings and revenue beat
• US banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law

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• Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) agreed to buy Tex-Mex chain Chuy's
• Leadership within a costco warehouse
• If The Office took place at a car dealership
• Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

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• Foundation Models - IBM watsonx.ai

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• DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024
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This week, we discuss Google possibly buying Wiz, why "meta work" leads to too many meetings, and why it took forty years to get spell check in Notepad. Plus, we share some thoughts on enjoying your vacation.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 476

Runner-up Titles

• Enjoy the time
• Everyone can get a beef rib at this year’s club.
• We also need to go over your summariztion prompt, because mine is dog shit right now.
• Make your own happiness
• Grand unified theory of food - every culture has a tortilla and an empanada.
• “Platform” is the new “Suite.”
• A robust NO Answer
• Writing a book report
• Failure by lack of airport ads.
• What is you five dollar chicken
• I write to figure out what I am thinking

Rundown

• There's a lot of private cloud out there
• Google near deal to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23 billion
• Meta Work
  • White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now
  • Bullshit Jobs
  • Far Left Take
  • Vanguard’s Die-Hard Customers Have a Message for New CEO: ‘The Service Is Abysmal’
  • Measuring the impact of Developer Relations on Revenue
  • DevRel's Death as Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon
  • Microsoft’s Notepad gets spellcheck and autocorrect 40 years after launch
  • Agile Manifesto co-author on making process 'beacon of hope'

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• The Silent Crisis in Open Source: When Maintainers Walk Away
• Google’s dark web monitoring service will soon be free for all users
• Software Development Job Postings on Indeed
• Samsung unveils its new Galaxy Ring, an AI-backed competitor to the Oura Ring
• Does Social Media Cause Anything?
• Redbox Owner to Shut Down Kiosk Business in Bankruptcy
• Intuit to cut about 1,800 jobs as it looks to increase AI investments
• Microsoft Exec Althoff: VMware Pricing Gave ‘The World The Greatest Gift Of All’
• Nearly all AT&T subscribers’ call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack
• OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
• I've Switched to Apple's Password Manager, and I'm Never Going Back
• Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation

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• Costco hikes membership fee for the first time since 2017
• Costco plans to build 800-unit apartment complex in bid to ease housing crisis
• Here's why the original Buc-ee's went up in flames in Luling
• If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds
• The Morning After: Dune-inspired spacesuit recycles astronauts’ urine into drinkable water
• OldMapsOnline

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Conferences

• Webinar on State of Cloud Native Survey, July 24th, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th–5th, 2024
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th–20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

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This week, we discuss Mary Meeker's AI & Universities report, the CD Foundation's State of CI/CD Report, and share a few thoughts on DevRel. Plus, Coté gets fiber and is forced to watch soccer.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 475

Runner-up Titles

• If not better, at least the same. The enterprise software buyer’s lament.
• Order tokens at fantastical speeds.
• They think I am an idiot
• Cherry pick it from a survey
• The Demo Matters

Rundown

• Mary Meeker’s new report AI and Universities
• State of CI/CD Report 2024 - CD Foundation
• 70% of people hadn't checked their code in for 12 months

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• Opinion | The Blue-State Wealth Exodus Continues
• How Apple used Google's help to train its AI models
• Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts
• Clouded Judgement 7.5.24 - Declining Growth
• Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76
• Mirantis Builds on OpenStack To Serve Up a VMware Alternative
• Is this the biggest password leak ever uncovered? Researchers claim nearly 10 billion credentials under threat — here's what we know so far
• We tested over a dozen laptops to see how Snapdragon compares to Intel, AMD, and Apple’s chips

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• Mark Zuckerberg's Lake Tahoe antics are getting even weirder
• The Fried Chicken Sandwich Wars Are More Cutthroat Than Ever Before

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Conferences

• Webinar on State of Cloud Native Survey, July 24th, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY

SDT News & Community

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This week, we explore the reasons behind the slowdown in DevOps adoption, compare open-source and proprietary foundation models, and discuss how AI might simplify CI/CD implementation. Additionally, Matt takes on an Australian history quiz.

Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 474

Runner-up Titles

• No silver bullets
• If you aspire for nothing, you’re done.
• We can hang out with the boulder at the bottom
• Who owns the black box
• You have to want to put in the effort
• Anyone on the bleeding edge is going to bleed

Rundown

• A Eulogy for DevOps
• DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either
• The InfraRed Report from Redpoint
• Dan Davies Explains Why Accountability Sinks Are Everywhere Now

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• Indonesia won't pay an $8 million ransom after a cyberattack compromised its national data center
• Odaseva raises $54M to secure Salesforce users
• More YouTube Premium plans are coming
• Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters
• Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact
• How Big Tech is swallowing the AI industry
• Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact
• Infrastructure as Code Landscape Overview 2024
• Infrastructure as Code reminds me of “make run-all”
• Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble? / Oxide
• “Everything’s frozen”: Ransomware locks credit union users out of bank accounts
• Exclusive-Vista Equity in talks to hand over Pluralsight to creditors, sources s

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• Faces made of living skin make robots smile
• Mandatory Texas vehicle safety inspections end in six months
• Costco's bold new plan for the California housing crisis

Conferences

• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024
• DevOpsDays Antwerp, 15th anniversary, Sep 4th-5th.
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY